The castle is situated on gentle slopes near the banks of the Seret River, it was built in the early XVII century. on the site of an ancient fortification as a family castle barons Holskyi ...
From the middle of XVII century. castle became the property of the Potocki , who was attached to and strengthened it. Subsequently, the Turks captured the castle . In 1683 Andrew Potocki failed to dislodge them and rebuild the castle.
 
At the beginning of XVIII century. castle lost its defensive value and is used as a dwelling, and eventually turns into a ruin.
 
For this configuration planning Polygonal formation, close to the correct pentagon. Along the high walls lined with local sandstone from the castle yard were Attached residential and commercial buildings with basements. Entrance Gate located in the north wall of the castle. Next to the gate , along the western wall contained a two-story palace with an arcade gallery in two tiers. It sided angular , protruding far beyond the line of defensive walls and square in plan pentagonal tower. In the XVIII century. between the towers on the outside terrace was constructed , the lower part is solved as an arcade.
 
From the palaces and towers to have survived the remains of the walls. Fragments of walls and traces of another tower - north, triangular in plan, which is adjoined to the south-west wall enclosure.
 
The remains of the family castle in Chertkov give an idea of ​​the type of protybastionnyy fortifications in Podolsk lands.
 
 
Information and photos from the book " Castles and Fortresses" ( 2007r.m.Kyyiv , "Art ")

Castle Holskyi (Chertkov)

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Yahilnytskyy castle rightly considered one of the most powerful and impregnable castles of Podolia. It was built in 1630 on the orders of the Crown Hetman Stanisław Lanckoroński. It is located on a high ledge above the river Cherkaska. The castle is triangular in plan, made up of stone. Under the castle there are spacious dungeons.
In 1648 Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossacks made their first trip to Galicia, but they didn't conquered Yahilnytskyy castle. The  successful siege was in 1655. Then Cossacks stormed strengthening in cooperation with the Moscow troops. Perhaps then the castle could survive, but inside it revolted locals.
After signing a Buchach peace treaty Buchach, Yahilnytsya with other lands of Podolia ceded to Turkey. In the castle there was housed a garrison of Turkish sultan. In 1672 the Polish royal troops drove them out. Military history for the fortress ended with the reconquest of the Turks Kamenetz-Podolsk in 1699. So by the end of XVIII century the castle had become more manor than a citadel. But in the end it was left to the Austrian government.
In the XIX century austrian authorities ordered to fill the trenches and make out part of the fortifications and buildings were used as a tobacco and potassium carbonate factory (evidence of this - an old postcard). To the factory there was built railways. Tobacco-fermentation factory existed here in the Soviet Union.
Building remained its defensive nature, despite the restructuring. Well preserved 6-meter walls of Lanckoroński former palace (1610).

Yahilnytskyy castle

Budanivskyy castle lies aside the traditional tourist routes, so his only visit the castle fans. Although the former fortress located Psychiatric Hospital, the castle is fully available for visits and relatively well preserved. 
It is believed that by the middle of the XVI century in modern Budanov was a small settlement Skomros. It has long been held near two ways Horde - Black and Kuchmanskyy. In 1549, King Sigismund Augustus allowed the privilege of his wife Galician magistrates Yakub Budzanivska Catherine of valve rename didychne village Skomorokhy (Skomros) Budzan the city. Sometimes the name associate with the word "bundz" - head of sheep cheese. Around 1550 Galician governor Yacoub Budzanovskyy lifted high left bank of the Seret wooden fortress. In his honor settlement called Budzan, worn until 1946. The wooden castle was soon destroyed by the Tatars. 
At the beginning of XVII century and Ian Martin Khodorovsky in place of destroyed wooden fortress built a stone castle. Rock of brownish-gray built from different-sized rough blocks and a raft of local limestone and sandstone. It was rectangular in plan with four round corner towers. It was the tallest building of the former town. Simultaneously with the construction of a new castle was founded in Khodorovsky Budzan Roman Catholic parish. The first stone church of the Holy Cross was probably destroyed by the Turks. In 1631, the new owner was Alexander Budzanova Sinenskyy and later moved to the family settlement Levochynskyh. Castle twice destroyed Cossack Bohdan Khmelnytsky - in 1648 and 1651, respectively. Trying to restore it made the new owner Tomas Luzhetskyy. Luzhetskyy himself heroically died during the defense of the fortress from the Turks in 1672. 
The castle was captured and destroyed by cunning the Turks in 1675. According to legend, local residents know in advance the approximation of the Turks from Terebovlia and hid by locking walls to the castle at night knocked a woman with a small child with a request to let the castle even a child. The attackers were still far away, so the defenders opened the gate. It was a catch: the Tatars invaded the castle through the gate of the ambush and massacred all the inhabitants. Defenders of the castle buried in the field "Pohyblytsya" near the castle, near the forest "Semankovym." Women and children buried separately, and men - including three large graves. At the cemetery and 79 graves are still preserved, and one of the three burials of male defenders is a stone with the inscription: "Here in this place called Pohlybytseyu, rest defenders from the Turks and Tatars in 1675 was." 
Restored the castle in 1765, Eustace and Mary Potocki. They rebuilt it in the western part of the church. Peredsinok temple priests and arranged with two castle towers. The new church was consecrated in 1838 under the title of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. In 1846 and restored the northern part of the castle. Through the efforts Kulchytsky priest that same year the castle was given under the convent of mercy, which was at the school and hospital. Then restore one of the towers and part of the walls. This massive stone tower is well preserved until today. The castle suffered greatly during both world wars. Do not preserved entrance gates, the remains of ramparts and ditches. At the tower, which serves as the church wall, miraculously preserved memorial table in honor of the 10th anniversary of restoration of the state. Since 1956 to the present time the castle is psychiatric hospital. The church, which is in a dilapidated condition in 1994 returned to the Roman Catholic community. Continuing its revival. In the former town, and today - the village, which in 1946 called "Budaniv" kept several mansions Austrian period and a couple of churches. http://www.potolkimaker.com/

Budanivskyy castle

Yaniv castle - the castle ruins in Dolyna village Terebovlya district, Ternopil region.
It is located on a hill near the church. It was built at the expense of Jan Golski - founder of the city Yanov in the shape of rectangle. Damaged in several places walls with loopholes still surround the church and are actually remains of old fortifications. The walls were fortified by towers at the corners, of which north tower is still preserved. This is a powerful, circular building with six small windows. Its top floor was demolished, and the first tier in almost completely covered with earth and turned into a cellar. Locals call it "the Polish gunpowder storehouse."
Then the castle of Jan Golski became the property of Bogush. In 1675 the castle was captured and destroyed by the Turks.
In the XVIII the castle Jan Golski became the possession Bohush, in which the saltpeter factory was established.